Language typology and historical contingency : in honor of Johanna Nichols /
For nearly half a century, Yokuts languages, especially Yowlumni (Yawelmani), have served as a "testing ground" in theoretical phonology. However, the data cited in this literature are, more often than not, forms contrived using rules adduced in the principle descriptive work (Newman 1944)...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2013]
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Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 104. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar : a corpus-based and experimental study / Andrej A. Kibrik
- Typology and channel of communication : where do signed languages fit in? / Dan I. Slobin
- Marking versus indexing : revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology / Nicholas Evans & Eva Fenwick
- Head-marking languages and linguistic theory / Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
- Lessons of variability in clause coordination : evidence from North Caucasian languages / Aleksandr E. Kibrik
- Noun classes grow on trees : noun classification in the North-East Caucasus / Keith Plaster, Maria Polinsky & Boris Harizanov
- Affecting valence in Khumi / David A. Peterson
- Capturing diversity in language acquisition research / Sabine Stoll & Balthasar Bickel
- Who inherits what, when? : toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones / Mark Donohue
- Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic : how recent is it? / Michael Fortescue
- A (micro- )accretion zone in a remnant zone? : lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective / Jeff Good
- A history of Iroquoian gender marking / Michael Cysouw
- The Satem Shift, Armenian sisern, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans / Bill J. Darden
- Penultimate lengthening in Bantu : analysis and spread / Larry M. Hyman
- Culture and the spread of Slavic / Alan Timberlake
- The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited / Lenore A. Grenoble
- Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages / Michael Cysouw & Bernard Comrie
- Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change / Alan C.L. Yu
- Distributional biases in language families / Balthasar Bickel
- The morphology of imperatives in Lak : stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative / Victor A. Friedman
- Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? / Randy J. LaPolla
- Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon / William F. Weigel.